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Even if the story was decent, the characters of the movie are a different story. The main character is so annoying that you wish she was bit or killed. I don't know if that's the way she was written or if it was the actress but I wish she had died. That's how bad she is. I only stuck with the movie because I wanted to see what happened. If your bord watch it but I'm warning you...you'll want to reach into the screen and kill her yourself.

With this 2016 movie "Almost Dead" being a zombie movie, of course I would sit down and watch it, as I am a big fan of all things zombie.

"Almost Dead" did have some parts to it that were interesting. They weren't many, and they weren't enough to make up for all the shortcomings that the movie suffered from.

What went wrong with the storyline in "Almost Dead" from writers Giorgio Bruno, Davide Chiara and Daniele Pace is the fact that the complete story takes place in or in the close vicinity of a crashed car, with a couple of zombies milling about outside. It was just too ludicrous and nowhere near fulfilling enough to maintain a feature length movie.

Plus the fact that the script was watered down and basically so simple that it could have fit on a single A4 piece of paper didn't really help to improve on the movie's entertainment value.

As for the acting in the movie, well it was semi-adequate, taking into consideration the severe limitations in terms of a poor script, an almost non-existing storyline and characters that were blank sheets of paper.

The zombie make-up was sort of adequate, but we weren't really treated to enough zombies to actually get to see an abundance of zombie make-up. But at least you knew it was zombies.

The ending of the movie was actually the best part of the entire ordeal that is "Almost Dead". I will not spoil anything, so you have to endure through the movie to get to it.

The movie's title is quite fitting, as almost dead is how you'll feel once to you through the 1 hour and 25 minutes the movie runs. This 2018 zombie movie from director Giorgio Bruno is hardly a mentionable addition to the zombie genre. It is a movie that came and left without as much as a groan or a bite.

I am rating "Almost Dead" a generous four out of ten stars solely because it is a zombie movie and it does have some bright moments - they weren't many - but they were there.

If your into a crying hot mess with amnesia that sits in a car than this is the movie for you!

This is The worst movie I have ever sat through. I wanted to see what the twist at the end was, so I forwarded through the whole movie. The acting is terrible. It doesn't make any sense. This Doctor Who works for the CDC should be confident, and should have the need to help people. But not this one. Plus she has an accent and her sister doesn't. Yet they work in the same place. This movie is a waste of time.

The best way to massacre George Romero's work and memory was Giorgio Bruno, who has the presumption of declaring himself a director!

It says that the producers spent 2 million on this. It certainly wasn't on the script, the actors or cinematography. As someone previously said, it's basically a crying hot mess in a car. Not only is she pathetic, but annoying as all hell. And why is it that she has an strong accent, but her 'sister' doesn't ? The worst part about the film was the utterly wooden voice acting from everyone that happens to call our protagonist. It got so bad I literally had to put it on mute and read the captions. (most people will know the difference between the words 'mutating' and 'muting'...except a scientist in the film). I don't say this very often...but this movie is truly a waste of time.

Oh this went south so quickly. I made it 30 minutes in before I just couldn't take any more. The dialogue is confusing and redundant, the characters are just endlessly repeating themselves in a louder voice, but the real hill I just couldn't get over was the main character. From the first frame she is unlikable and irritating and it just gets worse and worse. I enjoyed the ambience of the movie simply because I love the fog, but that's truly the only thing I can say for this mess.

The film is in the vain of 'The Walking Dead' but with a twist.

It is an intelligent, well executed movie that delivers what it says it does.

I will not spoil the twist in the film which takes you into a 'Walking Dead' style world but it is well done.

I was pleasantly surprised.

The film is well acted with a story line that works and well thought out.

I enjoyed it very much and the director is someone to watch in the future.

If you pick up this film you will not be disappointed.

Waking up in a wrecked car, a bound woman with no memory of her situation is suddenly thrust into a fight for her life when she discovers a series of flesh-eating zombies swarming around her car and must use what little resources she has available in order to stave off becoming one of the undead herself.

This was a surprisingly enjoyable effort. What really works nicely for this one is the unique setup that starts the film off which gives the film a mysterious start. Taking the idea of her being in the middle of the woods, completely unaware of what's going on and must first free herself and then try to get her bearings while the zombies start coming appearing on the scene. Alongside the phone calls she continually tries to place in order to understand what's happening, this setup offers an intriguing start to things. That turns the action in these scenes to be highly enjoyable. The main setting off a crashed car in the woods offers up plenty of nice scenes where the zombies swarm around the car and take on a series of frantic confrontations as they attempt to break in. The first encounter with the doomed fellow survivor and the failed escape that have to force them back inside offers a nice starting point for some of the later action where she has to stop the infected who were in the car with her. Armed with a finely emotional finale that gives this a nice gut-punch while also displaying some really effective zombie make-up and gore, these all help this one overall. There are some flaws to be had here. The main issue is the fact that the film can't really overcome its low-budget limitations. The fact that this one has to stay inside the car and rarely ventures outside as this only manages to feature several sojourns outside the car, and even then it only lasts for a few brief moments before retreating back inside, leaves this one quite obvious with what's going on. Likewise, with well over half the movie featuring her on the phone learning about what's going on with the backstory about the virus that eats up the running time without having a lot of zombie action present here which keeps this one down for the most part. The other real flaw here is the lack of rationale given the story that is just hard to grasp. The main problem with that is the fact that a big deal was made of her phones' battery about to die, yet without charging it they're able to talk the entire movie which really is quite a huge error to overlook. On top of that, the whole point of the conversations in the first place offers up an endless round of questions that range from in-universe questions to filmmaking tactics, going so far as to include why they continually switch accents for the characters during the conversations. It's all rather suspect and really holds this one back.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.